Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-30
PENNSYLVANIA pRoHIBITIoNIsTs.
A Platform Bristling with Denunciation
of the Republican Party.

"A Platform Bristling with Denunciatiol
of the Republican Party.
Harrisburg (Pa.) correspondence
Between four hundred and five hundred
delegates were in attendance at the State
Prohibition Convention. Temporary Chair.
man Chase referred in severe terms to the
fact that the railroads had charged Prohi-
bition delegates twice as much fare as Re-
publican delegates to the recent convention
of that party, saying such action was
fragrant violation of the interstate law
Female suffrage was earnestly advocated
as right recognized in the Declaration OF
Independence. A. c. Stevens, Chairman
of the State Committee, said that at the
close of the last campaign $4,000 more had
been expended than collected. That amount
had since been iquidated and the party
was now out of debt. Mr.. Black, of Lam
caster, suggested that as the Pennsylvania
Road had declared its policy to be to dis
criminate in favor of Republicans, COM
mittee of three be appointed to ascertain
the full facts, so that the corporation may
have the widest publicity given to its
policy. A resolution covering Blacks
suggestion was adopted. Charles S.
Wolfe, candidate for Governor last year,
was chosen permanent Chairman. Wolfe's
appearance on the stage excited much APP
plause. He arraigned the Republican
cause in inserting a bride in the high IL
cense law giving the counties the bulk Of
the license fees. This provision was in
tended to make votes against the pro-
hibitory amendment. The platform adopt
ed criticiSes the hypocrisy of the Repub-
lican party in pretending to favor the pro-
hibition Of the liquor traffic by the passage
of resolution for the submission of a
constitutional amendment prohibiting the
manufacture and sale OF intoxicating
liquors and then multiplying the same by
the passage of a high license law; favors
protection OF American labor and capital;
the restriction of immigration; the reserva-
ton Of public lands for actual settlers; Just
pensions to dependent soldiers or their
families; civil service based on personal
character and official fitness; favors arbi-
ration for the settlement of differences
between employer and employee, and ar
raigns the Republican party for the defeat
Of the State revenue bill by which corpora
atoms escaped the payment of $1,000 900.
The ticket nominated by the convention
is a strong one. Simeon B. Chase, the
candidate for Judge of the Supreme
Court, has been Il political prohibitionist
for nineteen years, and possesses consider
able ability. In 1872 he ran for Governor
on the Prohibition ticket, and in the same
year he presided at the National Prohibi-
lion Convention at Columbus, Ohio. For
five years he held the position of Grand
Worthy Chief Templar of the Order Of
Good Templars, of Pennsylvania. He
has always since he espoused the cause of
prohibition been an active worker in the
party. He is about 90 years old.
Capt. D. G. Irish, the candidate for
State Treasurer, was a soldier in the late
war, and after it's close he did some Indian
lighting on the plains. He is a farmer and
real estate dealer. In 1882 he supported
the Independent Republican State ticket.
The selection of Charles S. Wolfe as
chairman of the Prohibition State commit
lee means that the cold-water party intends
% carry on an active and aggressive cam
paign this year, notwithstanding the COM
oarative unimportance of the Offices to be
Tiled at the next election. Like the Re-
pub!icans the Prohibitionists recognize the